Gigapans

The geology gallery explores the rich local fossils and the extraordinary history of science behind their early discovery and study. Mary Anning and the Anning family of Lyme Regis, plays a central part of this story.

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The town on a busy Easter bank holiday weekend!
Lyme is known as the ‘Pearl of Dorset’ and is rich in history. This view is from the Cobb, Lyme’s famous curvy harbour and this spot is where Meryl Streep stood during a storm in one of the early scenes from the film, ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’, adopte...

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The classic view of the Purbeck coast, used by W.J. Arkell on the front cover of his famous memoir ‘The Geology of the Country around Weymouth, Swanage, Corfe and Lulworth’.
The rocks here straddle the Jurassic Cretaceous boundary. The boundary is somewhere in the beach, between the strikingly banded Purbeck Beds ...

The Centre is located right on the beach at Charmouth. This part of the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site (the Jurassic Coast) is famous for fossils and the Centre aims to help people explore the geology and fossils, together with marine life. Expert fossil wardens are on hand to help people discover foss...

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A Point of Geological Interest, as the highway signs describe it, just hints at the geological lessons that are laid bare here. The roadcuts that were exposed where Interstate 70 traverses the Dakota Hogback, just before rising out of Denver's western suburbs and rising into the Front Range proper, are a showcase of M...

The sedmient in the pan is a sample of sandstone rich in Early Jurassic vertebrates, from Wasson Bluff, Nova Scotia.
Find and lable things you think look like fossils. Look for fish scales, hybodont shark teeth, and many other types of teeth or bone fragments.
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One of the all time classic views of the Dorset coast and countryside with Chesil Beach, the Fleet Lagoon, Abbotsbury, the Isle of Portland and the Weymouth anticline, a huge fold in the rocks that makes this place what it is.

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The cliff is composed of Jurassic Summerville Formation - interlayered shale and gypsum beds. Cutting across this are large veins of hydrothermally remobilized gypsum. On a smaller scale there are many more smaller gypsum veins cutting the entire formation.

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The fossilised remains of a huge Pliosaur, one of the largest marine predators to live in the Jurassic sea.
The measured skull is 2.1 m long but fully assembled, it would be about 2.4 m and was recovered from a cliff fall over a period of about 5 years almost entirely by a single fossil collector. The beast was foun...